The Old Man In The Corner

by Baroness Orczy

Overview

These twelve mysteries by the author of ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ concern a mysterious armchair detective who solves crimes from reports and using logic. The stories describe murders, blackmail, theft and deception, but all have as their setting the fog-cloaked Edwardian streets: Fenchurch Street, Percy Street and Lisson Grove in London. Dublin, Glasgow, and Liverpool are also home to cases that have baffled detectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780755111299
Publisher:	House of Stratus, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/30/2001
Series:	Old Man in the Corner Series , #2
Edition description:	New edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.07(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Orczy moved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and Paris, where she was educated. She studied art in London and exhibited work in the Royal Academy.

She married Montagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales.

Orczy became famous in 1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel (originally a play co-written with her husband). Its background was the French Revolution and its swashbuckling hero, Sir Percy Blakeney, was to prove immensely popular. Sequel books followed and film and TV versions were later made.

Orczy also wrote detective stories which still prove popular and are equally acclaimed within this genre.

She died in 1947.

Table of Contents

	The Fenchurch Street Mystery	1
	The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway	21
	The Mysterious Death in Percy Street	41
	The Dublin Mystery	59
	The Glasgow Mystery	77
	The Liverpool Mystery	95
	The Case of Miss Elliott	111
	The Lisson Grove Mystery	129
	The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace	147
	The Tremarn Case	165
	The Murder of Miss Pebmarsh	185
	The Affair at the Novelty Theatre	205